| The Grip of Evil | |
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 Promotional poster | |
| Directed by | W.A.S. Douglas Harry Harvey |
| Written by | Douglas Bronston |
| Story by | Louis Tracy |
| Produced by | Balboa Amusement Producing Company E. D. Horkheimer H. M. Horkheimer |
| Distributed by | Pathé Exchange |
| Release date |
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| Running time | 14 chapters |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Grip of Evil is a lost 1916 American silent film serial directed by W.A.S. Douglas and Harry Harvey. It was distributed through Pathé Exchange. The melodramatic film serial was unusual in its critique of everyday habits and society and with episodes with unhappy endings.
Cast
- Jackie Saunders as Jessie
- Roland Bottomley as John Burton
- Charles Dudley
- Gordon Sackville
- Philo McCullough
- Gloria Payton
- Myrtle Reeves
- Tom Morgan
Chapter titles
- Fate
- The Underworld
- The Upper Ten
- The Looters
- The Way of a Woman
- The Hypocrites
- The Butterflies
- In Bohemia
- The Dollar Kings
- Down to the Sea
- Mammon and Moloch
- Into the Pit
- Circumstantial Evidence
- Humanity Triumphant
References
- Progressive Silent Film List: The Grip of Evil at silentera.com
- Blum, Daniel (1953). Pictorial History of the Silent Screen. Grosset & Dunlap. p. 120. ISBN 0-399-50667-5.
- Singer, Ben (2001). Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts. Film and Culture. New York City: Columbia University Press. p. 217. ISBN 0-231-11328-5.